Photo: Getty ImagesNew Zealand has reached 24 days without a new case of Covid-19 and the country's second largest cluster has been closed. The Marist College cluster is linked to 96 cases, behind only the Bluff wedding cluster which is linked to 98. Meanwhile, new data has revealed the flu had been reduced to historically low levels in New Zealand. Experts have been left astonished at the impact that the fight against Covid-19 has so far had on flu rates - one likening it to a fascinating "natural experiment". New Zealand moved to alert level 1 on Monday evening last week, June 8, with life returning to normal for many.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 15, 2020 01:03 UTC